Who Closed The Theatre In 1642?
Who Closed The Theatre In 1642? On 6th September 1642 the theatres were closed by Parliament as Civil War broke out. Who closed the theatre? Zeal-of-the-Land Busy may have been defeated in Jonson’s satire of the puritan attitude to the theatre, but his brethren in parliament were increasingly active: in September of 1642 the puritan